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@dingbatthefirst.bsky.social

Underperformed. Top End of the arse end of the world.

created December 13, 2023

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Under our current economic model immigration is the only thing holding the country up.

2/9/2025, 12:07:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem facing Labour is Starmer.

2/9/2025, 11:40:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A whiff of centrism about this one. i could think of some actual examples that might serve the argument better.

2/9/2025, 11:39:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wealth trickles up, not down. We by and large live in a world of abundance already.

2/9/2025, 11:37:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A for profit healthcare business model dictates that that 30% will not be spent with the patient.

2/9/2025, 11:32:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, that dude appears to hate the place. So...

31/8/2025, 2:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol you're as dumb as a box of hammers. Perhaps Hakeem can write a strongly worded letter explaining why we can't do anything. Centrists are the handmaidens of reactionaries. They'll take Trump over AOC every day if the week.

31/8/2025, 1:19:30 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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People are increasingly turning to the right and a key reason is the failure of centrists. The only people who don't know this are centrists.

31/8/2025, 12:54:37 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Centrist Democrats are a key reason Trump exists.

31/8/2025, 12:08:06 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Centrists hate Progressives and the Left more than they hate Reactionaries and Conservatives.

30/8/2025, 9:36:49 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nope

30/8/2025, 9:16:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol bollocks. Assisted dying vs months months of care. Same same. Dickheads

30/8/2025, 12:43:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dickheads like Gerry Harvey think productivity equals corporate profits. Clown.

29/8/2025, 1:10:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuggin Kylie Mate Fair Dinkum.

29/8/2025, 9:34:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Drew Pavlou is a would-be grifter too stupid to grift. In today’s world, that’s quite the achievement.

29/8/2025, 6:02:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA Energy? You fucking morons. What are you? The New York Fucking Times?

29/8/2025, 5:59:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your average Australian firefighter has Trumpist sympathies. Bit like Aussie mainstream journo that got a rubber bullet. All good.

28/8/2025, 8:07:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Broken Britain narrative he pushes every day.

27/8/2025, 9:05:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He said "These are kids that we have to show that at this age, like that?” You only say that if you think a gay person with a kid is different from a straight person with a kid. Let’s be very clear that Snoop is a homophobic fuckwit.

27/8/2025, 4:53:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The right doesn't fear an oppressive state. It only fears a state that will oppress them. They couldn't care less about anyone else.

26/8/2025, 11:17:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some other things to change it: people could learn the rules themselves. They could umpire their kids' games so they had a clue. They could analyse a game for the umpires' decisions so they had some evidence for their claims. This would also provide evidence they knew what they were talking about.

26/8/2025, 11:01:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine what the standard of football would be like if 99% of people never wanted to play because they were hated and disrespected and treated like shit? What do you think abusing a 12 year old trying to learn how to umpire does to the standard of umpiring.

26/8/2025, 10:54:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"if they got every decision right" When you expect the impossible, you'll always be disappointed. People have been hating umpires for decades. It's not a new thing. The single biggest thing is to lose the hate and make umpiring something that people want to do - then you'll attract the best people.

26/8/2025, 10:53:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The root cause is people hate umpires and whinge endlessly about them so no-one wants to umpire.

26/8/2025, 1:42:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That such childish things are important speaks volumes of the shallowness of both your intellect and your morals.

24/8/2025, 2:36:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Could you be any more pathetic. You’re a deeply, deeply stupid person. Scold that up your arse.

24/8/2025, 2:34:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If only Tasmanians were as committed to her

24/8/2025, 10:47:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be alarmed, not alert

24/8/2025, 10:43:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bro

24/8/2025, 10:37:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hypothetically if there were no billionaires

24/8/2025, 5:36:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will people who commit violent sexual offences own the copyright to those.

24/8/2025, 12:21:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Guardian sure does love rehabilitating centrist dross.

23/8/2025, 11:49:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Paying tax isn't a shakedown.

23/8/2025, 11:49:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lots of people are to blame for that. Having acknowledged that parents are part of the problem I'm not sure why they would therefore also be the solution. Swap the internet for drugs and tell me is your answer to the problem the same? Just keep your children off the internet is naive.

23/8/2025, 11:41:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your comment didn't imply it, it stated it very boldly. Parents may be the first line of defence but they are not the only line of defence. Exactly HOW it should be regulated is what the conversation should be, not 'it's all up to parents we can do nothing about regulating the tech industry '.

23/8/2025, 11:37:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Delegating managing the entire world to a parent also seems deeply ridiculous. Why not abandon regulations on everything and leave it up to parents.

23/8/2025, 10:50:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The reason bad legislation happens is because of people like you who believe there should be no restrictions. Imagine thinking free unlimited access to pornography by children was ok. Why should the internet be the only place in the world without regulation.

23/8/2025, 10:49:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes it might redistribute wealth from the top to the bottom and we can't have that.

23/8/2025, 10:23:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Between Labour, the Tories and Reform, there’s not enough room for 3 right-wing parties.

23/8/2025, 12:13:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the worst politicians in British political history. Should be fired into the sun.

23/8/2025, 9:28:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dingbat (@dingbatthefirst.bsky.social) reply parent

Bit like the Labour Party then.

23/8/2025, 9:09:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So if a Democrat administration fired all white people from the military that would be ok.

23/8/2025, 12:30:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You'd need a spine for that.

22/8/2025, 11:24:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It ain’t a living in a liberal bubble he’s living in.

22/8/2025, 4:01:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He lives in a quite different time. Dealing with the consequences you might say of the Hawke Keating neo-liberal agenda.

22/8/2025, 9:43:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I assume the profits of the companies were included in the article. Tesco were booming. Over 3 Billion profit. Corporations are full of shit.

21/8/2025, 11:12:18 AM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Productivity is more money for those at the top.

20/8/2025, 10:04:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Always good to be reminded of how corrupt and morally bereft the mainstream media is.

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20/8/2025, 1:13:32 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re a dickhead. Fact.

20/8/2025, 12:45:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Resistance must be non-violent, courageous, and steeped in mockery.

18/8/2025, 11:14:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Libs are happy to be pulled to the right. Labor hate being pulled to the left.

18/8/2025, 7:30:13 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's ok, just don't complain if you never form government again. Labor right hate the Greens and would prefer a Liberal government anyway.

18/8/2025, 7:29:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cycling infrastructure will solve 90% of the problems

18/8/2025, 6:46:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is 100% on Labor. Dean Winter has spent the last 6 months telling the Greens to FO. Clown should get in his clown car and GTFO.

18/8/2025, 5:56:55 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"My lot have f*cked this 8 ways from Sunday" Should have ended your sentence there

18/8/2025, 5:52:01 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think we all know what kind of person does this.

18/8/2025, 4:37:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Winter gave them no choice. This is on Labor 100%.

18/8/2025, 4:36:27 AM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dean Winter is a clown. He should get in his clown car and GTFO.

18/8/2025, 3:52:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Greens must oppose the motion tomorrow. No justification for supporting Winter. At all.

18/8/2025, 3:51:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember when these twats hated masks?

18/8/2025, 2:56:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We already live in abundance. It's the sharing about bit that isn't working.

18/8/2025, 2:44:27 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Academic writing should also be published in non-academic formats in plain English. Not instead of.

17/8/2025, 11:46:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No wonder @latrobeuni.bsky.social don't want people talking about it.

17/8/2025, 11:37:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's because centrists jump at their own shadows.

17/8/2025, 11:18:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The solution to umpires is to stop complaining. Cuts both ways. Deal with it. They're just people who choose to umpire. Step up to the plate if you can do a better job.

17/8/2025, 11:10:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe journalists could replace them.

17/8/2025, 10:56:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's maths you fuckhead

17/8/2025, 10:50:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Resistance must be non-violent and full of mockery.

17/8/2025, 10:22:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The core principle of centrists is anti-progressive. That's why they hate him.

17/8/2025, 10:12:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently they contacted Bevan Shields and he said it was the Unions fault.

17/8/2025, 1:38:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In TrumpWorld she might be charged with manslaughter

17/8/2025, 1:33:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol a worse collection of do-nothing centrists you’d go a long way to find.

17/8/2025, 12:46:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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80% seems like a pretty god success rate

17/8/2025, 12:43:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe they're sick of people like you telling them they're stupid. The kicker is, it's you that doesn't think.

17/8/2025, 12:04:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cults rarely outlast their leader.

16/8/2025, 10:37:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The success is apparent but where is the evidence? Correlation is not causation etc.

16/8/2025, 10:35:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be interested to know what percent of Guardian obits are for men?

16/8/2025, 2:07:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hakeem’s ideas are always put into reality. Hence the state of the Democrats.

16/8/2025, 1:48:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good. You don't want to pay your way then $%#& off.

16/8/2025, 1:46:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should do that then and leave the rest of us alone.

16/8/2025, 1:30:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Has the causation of the Advance in the No vote been established, rather than its correlation?

16/8/2025, 1:14:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The anti-trans agenda of @theguardian.com is quite sickening. It’s one thing to say trans women and biological women should not share a space - it’s quite another to be completely silent on the consequences of that view for trans people.

16/8/2025, 12:57:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good news. Wind it up and save the taxpayer a billion dollars a year. Has achieved precisely nothing.

16/8/2025, 12:53:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Europe has failed to meet the moment so far.

16/8/2025, 12:29:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m already here 😀

16/8/2025, 12:20:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Orange whipped

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16/8/2025, 12:18:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or for no reason at all

15/8/2025, 3:10:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah most old people complain about everything as they age

15/8/2025, 1:15:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guardian promoting the barely legal advocate Leonardo DiCaprio. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

15/8/2025, 5:28:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Guardian continues its anti-trans agenda. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

15/8/2025, 5:07:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cap number of negatively geared properties at 2.

15/8/2025, 4:00:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol Sinclair "cherry-picker" Davidson. Housing is not a normal supply and demand good so to argue standard supply and demand cliches is dishonest. Also dishonest is failing to admit that using property as an investment vehicle increases demand and negative gearing plays into this.

15/8/2025, 3:59:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"that's on you." The point being, of course, that it actually falls on everyone. Remember the days when the Left understood the structures that define society, rather than an atomised individual view of the world.

15/8/2025, 3:06:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Could Democrats do better by raising the interests of working Americans and knocking the billionaire-class down a couple of pegs? I reckon.

15/8/2025, 3:04:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The US can GAGF

13/8/2025, 12:50:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Merivale, that’s the wage thieves right?

13/8/2025, 11:13:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crumb maidens

13/8/2025, 9:10:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which just goes to show that sometimes elite musicians are worth listening to.

12/8/2025, 12:31:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's because he and his supporters aren't libertarian

12/8/2025, 8:36:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meanwhile, Palestine is on the brink of extermination.

11/8/2025, 12:10:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view